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Example 9-142
Omar i brayt i iz veri brait.
Omar
Omar
i
3sg
brayt
bright
i
3sg
iz
is
veri
very
brait.
bright
Omar, he is bright, he is very bright.
Comment:
The form
iz
is used as an intensifier here.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 2004
: 538
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
cite
Datapoints:
Predicative adjectives: No copula
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